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Show II mis TO CUTCOST-OF CUTCOST-OF PRODUCTS Defense Council Points to Method Whereby Great Saving Can Be Made in Price of Provisions LACK of adequate hiphwaya transportation. and not shortage of products, is in many eases responsible To? THe hirl prices paid by Hie publie for stuff raised in the agricultural regions! j according to. a communication received today at the governor's office from the Southeastern district highways transport trans-port committee of1 the Michigan slate council of defense. "Recently It became known," the letter let-ter says, "that there was a plentiful supply of apples to be had on outlying out-lying farms jf someone would go after thetn. Immediately a certain class of J dealers went after thoa apples, ae- j cured them for 50 cents a bushel, dumped them in cold storage and, if permitted, later will dole them out at I $3.50 a bushel. j Any person or agency with patriotic j Incentives could have obtained thoxe apples aC-the price quoted, and the' hard pressed public would have been supplied at reasonahl prices if transportation trans-portation facilities had been provided. pro-vided. "The same situat ion in regard to apples obtains with potatoes and other ' foodstuffs, and the highways transport I committee know s w here the supplier are. Any welfare store or food sup-j sup-j ply agency of any manufacturing plant can obtain these supplies and sell them again at equally low figures. "All that is necessary is for the industrial in-dustrial plants to obtain the hat of supply bases from the committee and send their own trucks after the stuff The proposition is one of transportation, transporta-tion, not shortage of products." Secretary Arch M. Thurman of the state council of defense nays that to a considerahle extent a similar situation situa-tion exiMs in I'tah, but that the local highways tnmjMirl committee, .1 11. Mandfrfu-ld chairman, is dotu much to relieve it. |